Pros:
- Plenty of parking, and never busy. Rare to ever see more than two other groups when you play, even on weekends.
- Plenty of open bomb opportunities on a lot of holes, especially on the back nine. If you like to test out your distance and throw all-out for a potential chance at a surprising birdie or two (can happen on #7, 11, and 14), you'll love this place!
- Surprisingly good use of the few trees in the fairways and around the baskets to make the holes more interesting and challenging than simple "field" holes.
- Great, detailed tee signs that actually portray the tree and hazard locations with accuracy! That's hard to do, so you really have to appreciate the effort that went into them.
- Detailed course map by the parking lot, and it's a full 18.
Cons:
- The tees are mostly dirt, and some of those that do have cement paver tees are breaking up and treacherous. Like on #16, be wary of sliding on sand on the concrete tee - I have multiple times...
- Watch out for the hidden, deep, murky stream just off the right on #15, 16, and 17. It's a lot closer to in play than you might think from the tees, and if you shank it in there your disc is gone for sure.
- Some people like the elevated pyramid basket on #14, but baskets like that always seem gimmicky and unnecessary to me.
- #15 is a real bear, virtually a guaranteed bogey. If you land behind the big tree island just past the first marsh you'll burn a shot getting back into the open. Then you have to bomb it into your choice of two narrow 'fairways' to the hole, the left of which is really too narrow to be useful. Assuming you choose the right 'fairway', don't turn it over into the trees on the right or you'll end up in the hidden stream back there. And finally the basket (yes it's labeled Practice) is on a hill, adding to the putt difficulty.
- #15, 16, and 18 are prone to flooding, be wary of playing the back nine after even a moderate rainstorm.
Other Thoughts:
- With it's generally open style, it offers a wonderful reprieve from the dense woods of nearby Alcyon and Stafford. Adds great variety to the style of courses in the South Jersey area.
- For those who enjoy dense woods, #6 gives it to you. That hole and the narrow fairway of #18 add real variety to the course.
- Favorite hole would definitely be #11, "The Beach", due to its long, sandy, dual fairway with a tree island in the middle. If you throw two accurate bombs in a row (with the second from slippery footing), then you can have a shot at birdie on this par 4 monster. A signature hole for sure.